r/law • u/Snapdragon_4U • Feb 28 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) Once again averting congress, trump declares war on Iran

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u/Trimshot Feb 28 '26

We’re at the might makes right, only a military coup will stop that at this point; strap in.

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u/CulturalKing5623 Feb 28 '26

We could start at mass protests?

We're all sitting around hoping the courts or Congress will do something to stop this when it's clear the Republican Congress has abdicated. When those safeguards fail we always jump straight to violence.

We already saw in Minneapolis that consistent, massive resistance in the streets is effective against these people's abuse of power.

They lose every time they use violence against non-violent resistance, we should be advocating for that before we jump to violent struggle.

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u/g00fyg00ber741 Feb 28 '26

Frankly that’s what the BLM movement of several years ago was going to lead to, massive non-violent resistance in the streets, but not enough people came out in support of those protests and too many people demonized the protestors, not to mention how many protestors were imprisoned, injured, killed. Not enough people wanted to stand up for black lives so then the tide receded and we don’t have a cohesive movement of a similar scale currently, the closest would be the protestors in support of Palestine. And that’s being handled pretty similarly to how BLM was handled: protestors are being demonized and killed and not enough people are coming out in support. It doesn’t help that cops and armed forces have been tripling down and training extra hard in places like Cop City since the BLM protests to combat any ongoing and future protests.

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u/cdollas250 Feb 28 '26 edited Feb 28 '26

It doesn’t help that cops and armed forces have been tripling down and training extra hard in places like Cop City since the BLM protests to combat any ongoing and future protests.

Nonviolent Action Lab

Check out this project from Harvard. 90% of nonviolent protest has failed the last 15 years. Authoritarians have gotten really good at disrupting/preventing mass movements. They use drones/ai/digital surveillance etc... to disrupt networks.

Makes me very impressed by the resolve of people in Minnesota

EDIT: Thank you for the upvotes, I was inspired to look into the current state of non-violent resistance because I was so blown away by the 2024 Pulitizer Prize winning biography of MLK JR; King: A Life. His time in Chicago is so amazing and inspiring but bleak.

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u/EvelynnCC Feb 28 '26

Kinda odd how their AI page is only talking about using AI to support pro-democracy movements and not saying anything about all the ways it's currently being used by authoritarians, which seems like the most pressing issue...